So there I was reading up on the latest advancements of DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) while stumbling upon on this promising achievement. It goes like this:
In order to create a rock-solid IPS (Intrusion Prevention System), capable of handling network speeds of up to 1 gigabit with standard Intel hardware, we had to devise a technology breakthrough in Layer 7 processing. Existing technologies were just too slow to keep up with network speed expectations.
Hey folks, as promised earlier, I released a bunch of code dubbed ‘peak’, which mainly features nuts and bolts for C projects. What’s so special? There are memory allocation wrappers checking consistency in your C code so you’ll always get a sensitive error message with file and line attached. This helps you to better trace buffer overflow/underflow issues. It also features a preallocated memory pool, print wrappers and byte access macros for little and big endian architectures alike. Mind you, this is still work in progress. Comments and contributions welcome.
A few days ago an article about the Quake3 source code by Fabien Sanglard surfaced on the web and I couldn’t help wondering about id‘s use of their own VM named QVM. The article itself is really well written with lots of pointers to additional information on the game design (source code) itself, but for anyone wondering about what it actually means to write something like that on a conceptual level, this example might not be the first choice. Please don’t take this as a full article. Instead, I’m going to provide links to places on where to find the basics. You can always come back later for the improvements suggested here.
I know we’ve got it good
But they got it made
And the grass is getting greener each day
I know things are looking up
But soon they’ll take us down
before anybody’s knowing our name
OneRepublic – All The Right Moves
He who has not right understanding and whose mind is never steady is not the ruler of his life, like a bad driver with wild horses.
But he who has right understanding and whose mind is ever steady is the ruler of his life, like a driver with well-trained horses.
He who has not right understanding, is careless and never pure, reaches not the End of the journey, but wanders on from death to death.
But he who has right understanding, is careful and ever pure, reaches the End of the journey, from which he never returns.
There is the path of joy and there is the path of pleasure. The two paths lie in front of man. Pondering on them, the wise chooses the path of joy: the fool takes the path of pleasure.
Katha Upanishad
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land